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I’m considering an 8-to-10-day family trip with my wife and two high school boys to ski Zermatt/Cervinia around New Year’s and would like to combine it with travel to historical cities or sites in the region, maybe Italy, Austria or Germany....

February 14, 2008, Thursday

Bruce Chatwin China, March 16, 1986 It is a cold, sunny Sunday in Yunnan. On the plain below Jade Dragon Mountain, the villagers of Beisha are letting off firecrackers to celebrate the building of a house, and the village doctor is holding a feast...

HIGHLIGHTS CANNES FILM FESTIVAL JURY -- Steven Soderbergh, the director of films like ''Traffic'' and ''Sex, Lies and Videotape,'' and Meg Ryan, the star of films like ''When Harry Met Sally'' and ''Sleepless in Seattle,'' will be members of the...

An essay in the Travel section on March 17 described a visit to a cemetery in Venice where the poet Joseph Brodsky is buried. The author reported visiting Brodsky's grave and finding a handwritten note ''in a script I cannot read'' wedged into the...

IT'S an intensely bright August day when we get off the vaporetto at the Cimetero stop on the tiny island of San Michel Isola. My wife, Judy, and I step onto to the dock, walk through the arch in the salmon-colored brick walls that edge the perimeter...

NATIVITY POEMS By Joseph Brodsky Several translators. Illustrated. 113 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $16. His biography is no doubt being written, and he wrote no real memoir of his own; meanwhile here is an autobiography told by his...